Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 50 in Northeastern Nigeria

Emergency personnel stand near the wreacked remains of a vehicle ripped apart following two suicide bombings in Nigeria's northeast city of Maiduguri on October 29, 2016. On Tuesday November 21, a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria. Joshoua Omirin/AFP/Getty Images

YOLA/BAUCHI, Nigeria—A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday in the biggest mass killing this year in a region facing an insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Abubakar Othman, a police spokesman in Adamawa state, said the death toll from the attack in the town of Mubi is 50 people, but “there could be more as those seriously injured could add to the figure.”